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The sad part about USA hosting the World Cup is not that it’s been a success but that FIFA has tasted blood and seen what are people willing to pay to attend even one game. Do not expect any World Cup going forward to be affordable like they once were – USA has shown people will buy tickets and travel no matter what.

Started watching Silo season 3. My god we are gonna spend the entire season around Juliette trying to get her memory back aren’t we? It’s insane how bad this show got after the insanely awesome first season. And apparently the books got better, but the TV adaptation went to the dumps. Hopefully it picks up.

In other exciting news we got our Dreame last night. So it was delivered to a neighbor of ours who used Amazon key. But these guys were out for while two weeks and came few days ago I guess. They dropped it off last night. Unfortunately I had already complained to Amazon about this and with lack of responses to my hoa post I assumed it was gone. So Amazon refunded me the money. Oh well, I guess I will keep it?

What an insane morning. I started getting pinged by Engineering leaders on whether the product I am leading has been deprioritized. I was like, huh, no it’s infact one of top priorities this year for company. Soon I started getting more pings from other cross functional leaders asking me the same qn – everyone’s like ok your product is done. I pinged my VP who was as clueless as I was. Turns out someone in another org used Claude to summarize cross functional efforts going on, it hallucinated that one of the top priority product has been deprioritized. This engineer did not choose to confirm this info but just cut copy pasted it into their slide deck that was then presented to their leadership and few common cross functional leaders. I spent hours trying to nail this down and turns out it was fucking AI hallucinating that the top priority was not in fact one, and humans just assumed it’s true. FML.

After six months in the digits ads industry I have come to a sad conclusion that there is no way, and I mean no way anyone can prevent Googles and Facebooks of the world from knowing every fucking thing about you, even if you don’t have a Google or Facebook account. Even if you use the most privacy centric browser, the most rigid privacy settings on browser etc. Nope. Nada. It’s truly been an eye opener of sorts.

Nearly 6 months since I joined the new company and after the initial chaos it has settled down, but I continue to be extremely disappointed with overall culture and ethic of this company. The amount of bad faith actors and bad faith tactics used by almost every team out here is just upsetting at a fundamental level. You are just one conversation away being hoodwinked by any team. Such a disappointing place that I came having very high hopes. I truly miss working at AWS/Amazon. Even at their crappiest they are miles ahead of others in the industry.

I don’t know why we have a senate or house anymore in this country when every single law or decision is being challenged and decided by Supreme Court. Why waste all the money on electing congressmen/women and senators. Just ask Supreme Court to govern no? I am sure the 6 stooges would love it.

I hate this age of useless AI chat bots. FedEx said my package was delivered but it’s clear from picture it was delivered to wrong address. Within app I try to start a missing package report, goes to ai chatbot that keeps crashing. When it actually works says there is no package in my name, but when presented with tracking number says oh yeah already delivered what’s the issue! Gawd. Give up go to Amazon where I got it from – first it takes forever to find the chat support, then first thing it says is it’s delivered and because a 3p sent it I need to chat with another agent… who was also clearly AI. Explain the issue again – and says wait 2 more days. Two more days for fucking what? The picture clearly shows my package in someone else’s garage! After explaining it again says oh in that I need to create another ticket with 3p and wait 2 days anyway. So now I need to wait for 2 more days for a missing package that’s obviously been misdelivered!

Apple’s price hikes are honestly ridiculous. They are not some mom n pop shop that can’t survive without raising prices – they are a 4 fucking trillion dollar company that spends less on R&D than most other companies in their bracket. If this the first decision the new CEO is taking it’s not a good sign at all. (Considering Cook is out in 2 months there is no reason to believe Ternus was bought into it)